As a follow up to may last message I have observed socket errors in the fetchmail log. Every time this happens it is followed by it looks like a restart with downloading the messages. I did a grep for socket in the log. Here is what I found.: fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net Here is a excerpt from the log where this occured: fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) fetchmail: sleeping at Sat 20 Nov 2004 11:09:38 AM PST fetchmail: terminated with signal 15 fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.2.5 daemon fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.comcast.net (protocol POP3) at Sat 20 Nov 2004 11:13:14 AM PST: poll started fetchmail: POP3< +OK (rwcrpxc51) Maillennium POP3/PROXY server #71 fetchmail: POP3> CAPA fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows fetchmail: POP3< EXPIRE NEVER fetchmail: POP3< IMPLEMENTATION Maillennium/PROXY V04.80c++ [15-Oct-04] cpu_sparfetchmail: POP3< c.os_solaris_bsd.comp_gnu fetchmail: POP3< LOGIN-DELAY 0 fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES fetchmail: POP3< STLS fetchmail: POP3< TOPfetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: self signed certificate in certificate chain fetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: self signed certificate in certificate chain fetchmail: Issuer Organization: RSA Data Security, Inc. fetchmail: Unknown Issuer CommonName fetchmail: Server CommonName: mail.comcast.net fetchmail: mail.comcast.net key fingerprint: 86:4B:ED:3A:64:CE:70:D4:56:C1:DE:57:C6:92:AC:19 fetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: self signed certificate in certificate chain fetchmail: POP3> CAPA fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows fetchmail: POP3< EXPIRE NEVER fetchmail: POP3< IMPLEMENTATION Maillennium/PROXY V04.80c++ [15-Oct-04] cpu_sparfetchmail: POP3< c.os_solaris_bsd.comp_gnu fetchmail: POP3< LOGIN-DELAY 0 fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES fetchmail: POP3< STLS fetchmail: POP3< TOP fetchmail: POP3< UIDLfetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> USER r.godzilla fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< +OK ready fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 72 715764 fetchmail: POP3> LAST fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 fetchmail: 72 messages for r.godzilla at mail.comcast.net (715764 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 1052 fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999 fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: reading message r.godzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:1 of 72 (1052 octets) fetchmail: SMTP< 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.12.11; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:13:18 -0800 fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP< 250-localhost.localdomain Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you <snip> What could be causing the socket errors? fetchmail: POP3< USER fetchmail: POP3< UIDL fetchmail: POP3< USER fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> STLS fetchmail: POP3< +OK Begin TLS negotiation -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097
